A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.